I would like to know how to autologin as root on mint 17.1?
I've been able to login as root from the login screen (by enabling root access in login window settings and changing the theme to clouds).
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It's very weird that after switching to zsh from bash, I can't access root.
I normally use 'su' to login as root after I login as a normal user (username is normalusername) with less privileges. And ...

So I have a library file that is used by a php module, both of which reside in my home dir on my shared hosted cpanel account.
Problem is this library depends on libcrypto.so.6 and libssl.so.6 files ...

I'm trying to execute traceroute -d being authenticated as a "standard" user with sudo privileges. However if I run sudo traceroute -d it will be execute by the root user so I'm wondering how can I ...

I have two servers that are synchronized with rsync, one is the failover server of the other, so they both have the same name.
Now root mails that are sent to my other account are all named from root ...

A colleague of mine assigned me to perform a root-cause analysis of an enterprise security server sometime ago. We knew the problem resided in one of the processes run by root but did not know which ...

I eventually plan on diving into software manipulation, and i want to avoid any and all things that as ROOT could destroy my system. I know tinkering with the file-system are dangerous to mess around ...

I have installed rhel6.5 in my pc. After that I have changed some configurations in file system. now I have taken backup image of /dev/sda1 which is a root partition of 15gb in size using the command ...

I made this bash function to detect if the user running is actually logged in as root user and not using sudo by checking the uid + home directory of the user executing the command:
#!/bin/bash
set ...

I am new to linux. i am using rhel 6. ext4 is my file system my / root file is full. is there any way to increase it? if its possible please teach me how to do it? please explain me in detail, because ...

I installed Kali Linux on a VM machine and I cannot change my user to root from the terminal using su. The command sudo works fine but when I try to su, it says "cannot execute bin/bash/****(my user ...

I mounted an .iso file and want to run the install file on it which is going fine. Then, at some point, the installer tries to make a new folder to install the program in. This, however, seems not to ...

Just one brick missing in my current wall. Feels to me like it should be easy to solve, nevertheless I got some explaining for you to do to make you understand what I want to achieve.
I need a linux ...

I have a Debian server and I would like to increase the "root" partition from 5GB to 17GB and to diminish the "home" partition from 14GB to 2GB. I am a newbie in linux sysadmin, so a really need your ...

I'm working in Ubuntu 14.04 I have an C++ application which I have compiled. I get the executable which name is "program". Well the thing is that this program use opencv and sockets then if I try to ...

My situation is very specific. I've applied chmod -R 777 / on my CentOS 7 server, so my system screwed up on next reboot. I took server HDD home and connected it via SATA cable to my home PC.
Now I've ...

I run debian and I'm looking to limit a folder to only be accessible by one user. How do I set the permissions up so only that one specific user can enter it, and no other user. The folder I'm talking ...